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9780198263968

Qumran Cave 4 XIII:The Damascus Document (4Q266-273)

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    9780198263968

  • ISBN10:

    0198263961

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-03-27
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press
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Summary

In this long awaited edition Baumgarten presents all the known Qumran Cave 4 manuscripts of the Damascus Document on the basis of J. T. Milik's original transcriptions. These eight manuscripts antedate the two medieval Cairo Geniza texts (CD) by more than a millennium and are indispensablefor all future literary and historical studies on one of the major foundational works of the Qumran community. For the first time we have the paraenetic beginning and ending of the work, as well as major additions to the legal corpus found in one of the medieval texts. The laws of this corpus andthe historical identification of the Jews who formulated them were earlier in this century the subject of much controversy, but have since been largely ignored in Qumran scholarship. Some even suggested that they were not an integral part of the Damascus Document. It is now apparent from theexpanded corpus that the interpretation of biblical law was a central concern of the Qumran community. Among the new subjects treated are such matters as the ethical arrangement of marriages, the role of women in the sect, and the legal status of fetal life. These laws are found side by side withallusions to the cosmic conflict of light and darkness and a view of history in which periods of wrath are ordained to precede the end of days.

Table of Contents

Table of Plates
ix
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Bibliography xv
Sigla xix
4Q266-273: Introduction 1(198)
4QDamascus Documenta (Pls. I-XVII)
23(72)
4QDamascus Documentb (Pls. XVIII-XXI)
95(20)
4QDamascus Documentc (Pls. XXII)
115(8)
4QDamascus Documentd (Pls. XXIII-XXV)
123(14)
4QDamascus Documente (Pls. XXVI-XXXVI)
137(32)
4QDamascus Documentf (Pls. XXXVII-XXXIX)
169(16)
4QDamascus Documentg (Pl. XL)
185(8)
4QpapDamascus Documenth (Pls. XLI-XLII)
193(6)
Concordance 199
Plates i-xlii

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